HOPE IS A TERMINAL CONDITION THAT PREVENTS ACTION TO END TYRANNY
Mark Lowry
February 05, 2007
“Nothing to lose is just another word for freedom”-Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee
Some baby boomers may remember the song “Me and Bobby McGee.” Several artists sang it but the only one who communicated the real meaning of the song with their life was Janis Joplin.
She lived a “freewheeling” life of dope, deviant sexuality and hard work as a singer. Joplin typified the product of the sexual and drug revolution. She died of a drug over dose at a young age when she had money and fame many strive for in a materialistic world designed to make spenders and borrowers of everyone. She finally saw freedom from what appeared to be the life of someone who had everything she wanted. She actually led an empty sad existence and finally concluded she had nothing else to lose. Instead of changing her life, she overdosed and died.
Those who hope for better in circumstances where there is no chance for anything better, are slaves of their hope. They submit to brutal tyranny and meekly accept death without struggle because they hope until the last minute the governor will call and set them free, the cavalry will come charging over the hill and rescue them, they will find true love, or by some miracle their despotic tormenter will suddenly change and set them free.
They blindly believe government propaganda that the next five year plan will lead to prosperity. One world government will lead to peace, prosperity and world harmony in one world village united and tolerant. You can be President if you only apply yourself. Bill O’Reilly said: all one needs to do to be successful like he has been is to “get a good education, marry a good woman, and work hard.”
Myths propagated by governments around the world are propaganda to maintain control. There is a stark difference between dreams portrayed and reality. It takes a lot of luck along with hard work to be able to lift one’s self from one social and economic level to the next.
Under tyrannical authoritarian governments it is about impossible without being in league with the tyrant or becoming a criminal. True democracies with real capitalist systems and free and fair markets provide opportunity but they still do not guarantee great materialistic success without a lot of luck.
Clinging to hope for better, when there is none, is a futile effort that leads to inaction and acceptance of one’s slavery to their government system or one’s death. That is what keeps people in China, Korea and any other number of countries, even ours from taking action. We are always hoping for better of our leaders or someone else will change it for us.
Hitler was masterful in keeping Jewish Holocaust victims docile until the last minutes prior to their death. He provided hope with the lie they were going to work camps and only needed to shower to get ready. They were told new clothes awaited them after the showers. Small violin ensembles played classical music as prisoners walked calmly to their deaths. They went without struggle even though tall smokestacks pumping out billowing clouds of black smoke scented of burning flesh filled the air from ovens burning victims’ bodies. Their hope forced them to ignore the obvious.
Others not involve in that type of tragedy still ask why would anyone not fight for their lives, why didn’t they rise up as one and attack their killers, why didn’t they act,… they had nothing to lose? They were killed by blind hope when there was no hope. One survivor confirmed that assessment in the “Auschwitz Alphabet” a compilation of survivor recollections and comments under a section titled “The hope that kills”:
Despite the madness of war, we lived for a world that would be different. For a better world to come when all this is over. And perhaps even our being here is a step towards that world. Do you really think that, without the hope that such a world is possible, that the rights of man will be restored again, we could stand the concentration camp even for one day?
It is that very hope that makes people go without a murmur to the gas chambers, keeps them from risking a revolt, paralyses them into numb inactivity. It is hope that breaks down family ties, makes mothers renounce their children, or wives sell their bodies for bread, or husbands kill. It is hope that compels man to hold on to one more day of life, because that day may be the day of liberation. Ah, and not even the hope for a different, better world, but simply for life, a life of peace and rest. Never before in the history of mankind has hope been stronger than man, but never also has it done so much harm as it has in this war, in this concentration camp. We were never taught how to give up hope, and this is why today we perish in gas chambers.” Borowski, pp. 121-122.
We need teach Americans to give up hope things will change for the better, if we keep silent. They are not going to change for the better without all our involvement as one. Our country is being taken over by corporate globalist elites and they will stop at nothing until they succeed. You must know that. Our president by imperial decree is taking away our freedoms, jailing our protectors, not securing our safety, bankrupting our treasury and ignoring our pleas for relief from these tyrannical acts.
Patrick Henry recognized acceptance of intolerable conditions and lack of hope for improvement as critical and basic recognition of truth Americans had to come to if they were to end tyranny of King George. He said in his famous “give me liberty or death speech”…
I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate…
Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offence, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings…
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it…
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House?
Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.
There is no longer any room for hope… If we wish to be free²… we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us… There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!... Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace²but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!...
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
There are no better words than Patrick Henry’s to define terrible destiny America and her people face at this most critical point in America’s history and this humble writer doesn’t suggest in the least he can.
However circumstance compels an effort to relate Patrick Henry’s great speech to current challenging state of affairs. America must recognize the take over taking place and ignore propaganda insisting there is no effort to eliminate American National Sovereignty. We can not shut our eyes to this painful truth.
Do we not see: illegal alien invasion of foreigners walking your city streets, living in homes next to you paid for with government funds; them in emergency rooms getting free treatment at your expense; corporate elitists ignoring our laws and hiring illegals; our government violating our laws and permitting and assisting illegal alien invasion; our citizen soldiers killed in wars of aggression and economic colonialism to defend economic expansion of corporate global elitists; corporate elitists taking over our educational systems promoting social change and elimination of our basic rights to practice religions as we chose; loss of American jobs and lack of taxation of global elitists taking our jobs and ability to earn a living to China and other foreign lands; subjugation of the American Constitution and its laws to World Organizations controlled by global elitists; Social Security Totalization Agreements that permit foreigners to get social security benefits after only 18 months of work while we must have 10 years of work to get the same; plans to create a North American Union with open borders that reduce our governance to control of global elitists; the Security Prosperity and Partner agreement between North American nation states; greatest indebtedness of American citizens since the Great Depression; our nation’s 8.4 trillion dollar debt; foreign ownership of our highways, buildings and our government debt; foreign consulates at every level of government aiding alien invasion; record global corporate profits while our wages remain stagnant; record bank profits while we have record debt and bankruptcy; global warming and environmental devastation from overpopulation; and lies and propaganda saying none of these facts are true? Do we not see?
Are we so blind we can not see? I rather recognize truth and know there’s nothing to lose except enslavement to globalist elitists if I act to remedy these deplorable conditions. We American Citizens have no hope. The takeover has already started and well under way.
We must act as one to put right these insufferable injustices being leveled against us. We need protests loud enough to end tyrannical global elitist government controlling America’s legislature and administrative branches of government.
American Patriot leaders must standup with us and lead America back to representative democracy Patriot founders gave lives and fortunes for. Peaceful change is preferred hoped method but may not always be a future alternative without present action. Two Hundred and Fifty Million people “armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us…”
Wake up American Sleeping Giant, we got get to work.
Some baby boomers may remember the song “Me and Bobby McGee.” Several artists sang it but the only one who communicated the real meaning of the song with their life was Janis Joplin.
She lived a “freewheeling” life of dope, deviant sexuality and hard work as a singer. Joplin typified the product of the sexual and drug revolution. She died of a drug over dose at a young age when she had money and fame many strive for in a materialistic world designed to make spenders and borrowers of everyone. She finally saw freedom from what appeared to be the life of someone who had everything she wanted. She actually led an empty sad existence and finally concluded she had nothing else to lose. Instead of changing her life, she overdosed and died.
Those who hope for better in circumstances where there is no chance for anything better, are slaves of their hope. They submit to brutal tyranny and meekly accept death without struggle because they hope until the last minute the governor will call and set them free, the cavalry will come charging over the hill and rescue them, they will find true love, or by some miracle their despotic tormenter will suddenly change and set them free.
They blindly believe government propaganda that the next five year plan will lead to prosperity. One world government will lead to peace, prosperity and world harmony in one world village united and tolerant. You can be President if you only apply yourself. Bill O’Reilly said: all one needs to do to be successful like he has been is to “get a good education, marry a good woman, and work hard.”
Myths propagated by governments around the world are propaganda to maintain control. There is a stark difference between dreams portrayed and reality. It takes a lot of luck along with hard work to be able to lift one’s self from one social and economic level to the next.
Under tyrannical authoritarian governments it is about impossible without being in league with the tyrant or becoming a criminal. True democracies with real capitalist systems and free and fair markets provide opportunity but they still do not guarantee great materialistic success without a lot of luck.
Clinging to hope for better, when there is none, is a futile effort that leads to inaction and acceptance of one’s slavery to their government system or one’s death. That is what keeps people in China, Korea and any other number of countries, even ours from taking action. We are always hoping for better of our leaders or someone else will change it for us.
Hitler was masterful in keeping Jewish Holocaust victims docile until the last minutes prior to their death. He provided hope with the lie they were going to work camps and only needed to shower to get ready. They were told new clothes awaited them after the showers. Small violin ensembles played classical music as prisoners walked calmly to their deaths. They went without struggle even though tall smokestacks pumping out billowing clouds of black smoke scented of burning flesh filled the air from ovens burning victims’ bodies. Their hope forced them to ignore the obvious.
Others not involve in that type of tragedy still ask why would anyone not fight for their lives, why didn’t they rise up as one and attack their killers, why didn’t they act,… they had nothing to lose? They were killed by blind hope when there was no hope. One survivor confirmed that assessment in the “Auschwitz Alphabet” a compilation of survivor recollections and comments under a section titled “The hope that kills”:
Despite the madness of war, we lived for a world that would be different. For a better world to come when all this is over. And perhaps even our being here is a step towards that world. Do you really think that, without the hope that such a world is possible, that the rights of man will be restored again, we could stand the concentration camp even for one day?
It is that very hope that makes people go without a murmur to the gas chambers, keeps them from risking a revolt, paralyses them into numb inactivity. It is hope that breaks down family ties, makes mothers renounce their children, or wives sell their bodies for bread, or husbands kill. It is hope that compels man to hold on to one more day of life, because that day may be the day of liberation. Ah, and not even the hope for a different, better world, but simply for life, a life of peace and rest. Never before in the history of mankind has hope been stronger than man, but never also has it done so much harm as it has in this war, in this concentration camp. We were never taught how to give up hope, and this is why today we perish in gas chambers.” Borowski, pp. 121-122.
We need teach Americans to give up hope things will change for the better, if we keep silent. They are not going to change for the better without all our involvement as one. Our country is being taken over by corporate globalist elites and they will stop at nothing until they succeed. You must know that. Our president by imperial decree is taking away our freedoms, jailing our protectors, not securing our safety, bankrupting our treasury and ignoring our pleas for relief from these tyrannical acts.
Patrick Henry recognized acceptance of intolerable conditions and lack of hope for improvement as critical and basic recognition of truth Americans had to come to if they were to end tyranny of King George. He said in his famous “give me liberty or death speech”…
I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate…
Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offence, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings…
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it…
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House?
Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.
There is no longer any room for hope… If we wish to be free²… we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us… There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!... Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace²but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!...
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
There are no better words than Patrick Henry’s to define terrible destiny America and her people face at this most critical point in America’s history and this humble writer doesn’t suggest in the least he can.
However circumstance compels an effort to relate Patrick Henry’s great speech to current challenging state of affairs. America must recognize the take over taking place and ignore propaganda insisting there is no effort to eliminate American National Sovereignty. We can not shut our eyes to this painful truth.
Do we not see: illegal alien invasion of foreigners walking your city streets, living in homes next to you paid for with government funds; them in emergency rooms getting free treatment at your expense; corporate elitists ignoring our laws and hiring illegals; our government violating our laws and permitting and assisting illegal alien invasion; our citizen soldiers killed in wars of aggression and economic colonialism to defend economic expansion of corporate global elitists; corporate elitists taking over our educational systems promoting social change and elimination of our basic rights to practice religions as we chose; loss of American jobs and lack of taxation of global elitists taking our jobs and ability to earn a living to China and other foreign lands; subjugation of the American Constitution and its laws to World Organizations controlled by global elitists; Social Security Totalization Agreements that permit foreigners to get social security benefits after only 18 months of work while we must have 10 years of work to get the same; plans to create a North American Union with open borders that reduce our governance to control of global elitists; the Security Prosperity and Partner agreement between North American nation states; greatest indebtedness of American citizens since the Great Depression; our nation’s 8.4 trillion dollar debt; foreign ownership of our highways, buildings and our government debt; foreign consulates at every level of government aiding alien invasion; record global corporate profits while our wages remain stagnant; record bank profits while we have record debt and bankruptcy; global warming and environmental devastation from overpopulation; and lies and propaganda saying none of these facts are true? Do we not see?
Are we so blind we can not see? I rather recognize truth and know there’s nothing to lose except enslavement to globalist elitists if I act to remedy these deplorable conditions. We American Citizens have no hope. The takeover has already started and well under way.
We must act as one to put right these insufferable injustices being leveled against us. We need protests loud enough to end tyrannical global elitist government controlling America’s legislature and administrative branches of government.
American Patriot leaders must standup with us and lead America back to representative democracy Patriot founders gave lives and fortunes for. Peaceful change is preferred hoped method but may not always be a future alternative without present action. Two Hundred and Fifty Million people “armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us…”
Wake up American Sleeping Giant, we got get to work.
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